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1:45

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1:47

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1:50

sayings out there. Curiosity

1:52

did not kill the cat. It's

1:55

so totally wrong. And they couldn't

1:57

have been further from the truth. Asking questions

1:59

and. being curious about everything

2:03

about your life is absolutely

2:05

key to and fundamental to how

2:07

we function as humans. So it's funny

2:09

how we can have these things that get into

2:11

popular culture and we kind of you know think

2:13

it's good and bad. It's very

2:15

often said to children in this manner as a

2:18

discipline for the whole. Now remember when asking my

2:20

parents questions and then saying things like curiosity killed

2:22

the cat. It's kind of like that

2:24

this part of the awful leader who's going to kill

2:26

the cat and why would curiosity kill the cat? It

2:28

didn't make any sense. So well I'm

2:30

your host Dr Caroline Leaf and welcome

2:32

to my podcast Cleaning up the Mental Myth

2:34

and I'm going to talk to you about why curiosity

2:36

did not kill the cat and maybe tell you some

2:38

very obvious stuff but I just want to remind you

2:41

to be very curious. In fact it's

2:43

curiosity that would expand your life experience,

2:46

help you get unstuck, move you forward,

2:48

help you grow as a person, empower

2:50

you to get autonomy over situations, change

2:52

your brain health for the better, being

2:54

curious changes your brain health for the

2:56

better, who doesn't want to improve brain

2:59

health, help you process instead of suppress

3:02

that really is a key piece of trigger and

3:04

in doing so increase your health span and longevity.

3:07

I mean that is so cool. I want to say those

3:09

again. Curiosity will

3:11

expand your life experience, help

3:14

you get unstuck, move

3:16

you forward, help you

3:18

grow as a person, empower

3:20

you to get autonomy over situations,

3:23

change your brain health for the better, help

3:26

you process instead of suppress

3:29

and in doing so increase your

3:31

health span and

3:34

longevity. For

3:38

health span is how healthy

3:40

you are as you age. So not

3:42

only do you want to live longer but you

3:44

want to live longer in a healthy way

3:47

And curiosity is key to that. You

3:49

Know that these research showing that the

3:51

dementia's Alzheimer's cognitive decline and those kinds

3:54

of things a lot of that is

3:56

it comes from us not using our

3:58

mind enough. Not

4:00

an Illini, Don't use a mind of

4:02

and healthy views on Monday incorrectly like

4:05

suppressing and that kind of thing. If

4:07

make sure that it's in, it's an

4:09

unhealthy minds it seems an unhealthy wave

4:11

and into a see the brain and

4:13

and with that causes and healthy brain

4:16

and unhealthy brain And and healthy mind

4:18

means unhealthy body. Has. Over time

4:20

it's cumulative, so your vulnerability. To

4:23

cognitive decline and and those kinds

4:25

of things increases. When. We

4:27

don't keep on mind managed management is

4:29

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the in a lobby so or the ones that have already

5:01

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5:03

challenge. Already met a happy in the in the

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river north of great because they see to inside

5:07

to eat and you're cynical off. The. I

5:10

interact with you on. For christians will consider postseason

5:12

holds a handful comes a month and I'm

5:14

be to help you. So encouraging if you

5:16

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5:18

in the so nice and jump on the.

5:21

And. The and the Challenge dps. A

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good bunch of the discount and learn

5:25

to get curious because a mess of

5:28

part of the news cycle. Is

5:30

being curious. Asking

5:32

questions, To think of. When.

5:34

A child growing up. As they are starting to

5:36

learn to speak, it's. Why Mommy

5:38

As a Why Betty the sending you answer

5:41

the in line. And you onto the same

5:43

line spaces. Three. And censor the can

5:45

be here in fewer seats from because

5:47

she turned into something you should eventually.

5:49

Here. You max on a because a seats and

5:52

it will happen. But you can always give some

5:54

sort of reason to tell. This country as a

5:56

child is. pulling the brain they going in

5:58

mind this would be out of the

6:00

life by all being curious. Curiosity, you

6:02

can see I'm very into curiosity. Curiosity

6:07

in asking patients is so healthy for our

6:09

mental and emotional wellbeing. In fact, it's a

6:11

crucial aspect of managing your mind, which is

6:14

your driving life force. If you think of

6:16

then your mind, let me add

6:18

to that statement. Your mind is

6:20

your driving life force. Your mind

6:22

loves being curious. Your mind is

6:24

curiosity. Your mind is constantly

6:27

asking, answering and discussing. Your mind

6:29

is thinking, feeling and choosing, thinking,

6:32

feeling and choosing around what you're

6:34

being curious about. So

6:36

I'm telling you information. You are in your

6:39

mind asking questions. You're thinking, feeling and choosing

6:41

in response. And your thinking, feeling and choosing

6:43

is generating a curiosity where you are curious

6:45

to hear, hopefully are curious to hear what

6:48

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you're in a conversation with someone you're

9:00

going to watch a movie. I mean, that's a

9:02

great example. You watch a movie, you're curious to

9:04

see what's gonna happen with the characters and the

9:06

plot and the climax and the builds, it's

9:10

all about the climax and what happens at the end and reading

9:12

a book. We're constantly curious, what

9:14

should we eat? How are others gonna turn

9:16

out this meal? What's this new restaurant? How are my

9:18

new friends? What are they gonna talk about? We live

9:20

in the state of curiosity. And

9:22

that state's natural, but when we deliberately

9:25

and intentionally add questioning to the process

9:27

and guide their curiosity, we are increasing

9:30

our brain health as I said, and

9:32

health span and longevity. So much out

9:34

there on biohacking and

9:36

longevity and we're updating on living

9:38

for a long time too. But I know that one

9:40

of the main things and I've done a podcast on

9:42

this as well is how you managing your mind and

9:44

curiosity keeps that mind going. It

9:47

keeps it sharp and active. So

9:50

it's a fundamental process in my mind

9:52

management system and my mind

9:54

management system as I've said is the

9:56

neurocycle. Throughout the neurocycle and every step

9:58

you're getting awareness. my feeling,

10:00

what is going on in my body as I feel this,

10:03

how's this happening, who, what, when, where, where,

10:05

what's more detail, where's this happening, where's this

10:07

coming from, its curiosity is throughout. Okay,

10:11

you're being curious in how you show up in

10:14

your emotions, your behavior, your perspective, your body sensations

10:16

and ever deepening layers until you get

10:18

to the core through asking, answering and

10:21

discussing. So the whole overarching

10:23

process is ask, answer, discuss, ask,

10:25

answer, discuss, ask, answer, discuss, you're

10:27

being curious. And as you're

10:29

asking, answering and discussing, you're thinking, feeling

10:31

and choosing, that's the mind in

10:33

action. This enables you to do

10:36

a deep dive into the inner workings of

10:38

your conscious, subconscious and non-conscious mind that I

10:40

talk about all the time. I've done a

10:42

whole podcast on the difference between the three

10:44

and I refer to it often throughout. So

10:47

what is curiosity doing in your mind and brain? It's

10:50

creating an energy and neurochemical

10:52

flow through the brain that results in an

10:55

increasingly malleable state in the relevant

10:57

brain networks. Let me say that

10:59

simplistically. It changes the

11:01

way that the energy flows in the brain and

11:03

it changes the way that the neurochemical

11:06

flow in the brain in a constructive

11:08

way that enables the networks that are

11:10

driving you to be loosened up so

11:12

that you can either add to them

11:14

or change them or fix them or

11:16

whatever. If they're not loosened up, they're

11:18

stuck and then you're stuck in that pattern of

11:21

thinking. When you break a pattern of thinking

11:23

into building a new habit, curiosity starts

11:25

creating an energy wave through the brain

11:27

that starts loosening up those networks and

11:30

preparing for change. You

11:32

get an increase in gamma wave

11:35

activity, which if gamma wave, I always use the example

11:37

of when a wave crashes on the

11:39

beach, the little wave or the gamma wave. And

11:42

when you are in this curious state, we get

11:44

a lot of gamma activity, which is actually

11:46

the activity we need to blow the brain. It

11:49

stimulates a wave pattern that's fertile ground

11:51

for brain growth. And when your brain

11:53

grows, it grows

11:55

in the right direction. You're getting healthier. When your brain

11:57

grows in the wrong direction, you're not getting healthy.

12:00

So that's why being curious is

12:02

going to help you decide, oopsie, I'm thinking in

12:04

the wrong way. How can I change this?

12:06

Whereas versus, okay, I'm just going to keep thinking

12:08

in this way. So then you're

12:11

going to, you know, you're building the wrong kind of

12:13

network. So your conscious mind,

12:16

this is an interesting one. So when you are

12:19

being curious, your conscious mind doesn't

12:21

multitask. Okay. Multitasking

12:23

is a risk for the conscious mind. So consciously

12:25

we do one thing at a time first, but

12:27

we do one thing, finish, one thing, finish, one

12:29

thing, finish, one thing, finish. And we,

12:31

the more we manage our mind, the more

12:34

effective we get at doing that in

12:36

our conscious mind, but our non-conscious mind,

12:38

which is the biggest part of you

12:40

runs 24 seven conscious mind is

12:42

slow and it operates in your

12:44

wake. Non-conscious mind never stops. It

12:46

never runs out of energy. It's

12:48

infinite in size and ability and

12:50

what capacity it's on your

12:52

side. It stores every experience. It

12:54

is scanning every experience to find the stuff that's good,

12:57

the bad, and the ugly and making you aware of

12:59

it. It is running your body. It

13:01

is doing a lot. So your

13:03

non-conscious mind is extremely active and

13:06

it's going beyond multitasking because

13:08

it's doing so many things

13:11

simultaneously. So

13:14

your conscious mind switches between tasks.

13:16

Your non-conscious mind works at a

13:19

level far exceeding multitasking and incredibly

13:21

fast. So when you ask

13:23

questions or pose questions to yourself, when

13:25

you get curious, you are

13:27

allowing a funneling effect between the conscious

13:29

and the non-conscious mind. So by you

13:32

asking a question, you are opening the

13:34

door where you're allowing a funneling effect

13:36

of the conscious question, going to the

13:39

non-conscious mind and creating an interaction between

13:41

the two, which is brilliant. You

13:43

want that. It's grabbing the

13:45

wisdom that's inside of you and grabbing

13:47

the power that's inside of you to

13:50

solve problems, to gain knowledge, to expand

13:52

knowledge, to grow. All those things are

13:54

said in the beginning to bring brain

13:56

health into your brain, to grow your brain. The

13:59

Non-conscious mind. Odom elephant existing thought

14:01

related to the Christians it's asked for

14:03

you are city since you seem to

14:05

to to the non conscious and unconscious

14:07

searches and signs all the trees. With.

14:10

The so trees with the memories that are

14:12

relevant to the Christian scenes in back up

14:14

on it or time at different speeds to

14:16

the subconscious. A subconscious is kind of a

14:18

holding boy and pop in and out of

14:21

an unconscious Chris, An unconscious his as is

14:23

in and then please can than unconscious which

14:25

is super fast into the subconscious. It's like

14:27

a holding pattern. It's a bit slower. And

14:30

then into the conscious. Mind has kind of

14:32

holds the and in a pop. In and Out

14:34

says that this movement from the unconscious to the

14:36

subconscious to the punches. See. The

14:39

subconscious minded about Forty Actions physique

14:41

and which we consciously perceive in

14:43

chunks of a few seconds off

14:45

a christian. A big them

14:48

to an unconscious mind and countries fund

14:50

signed the lease, pushes him into the

14:52

subconscious and forty times a second hand

14:54

in we take him into a conscious

14:56

mind if we see seconds and the

14:58

we use that information to help us

15:00

on the police and big exercise alone

15:02

is like going to the gym. I

15:04

mean excellent. Literally an excellent

15:06

exercise to develop your mind to

15:09

do the little mind management skills.

15:12

So. To. It's really brilliant. So that

15:14

subconscious mind is like a delay between the

15:16

contest and set an unconscious focus. So single

15:18

conscious mind. To. Focusing on the

15:20

one Christian and embedded within

15:22

the. Within. An unconscious

15:25

mind that the that punches ninety spending

15:27

soon So this in is this is

15:29

a very in and she thinks task

15:31

to your brain is activated to channel

15:33

all that energy specifically to this task

15:36

which is good for brain health. When

15:38

his his. Curiosity demands lot

15:40

of energy of the mind and

15:42

body so you've it's which is

15:44

good because you're bending channel that

15:47

energy resources on the ears of

15:49

the brain that meets upstairs. You're

15:51

hoping with accept that these different parts that

15:53

are more after the second time so we

15:55

see like magana the frontal lobe with when

15:57

you Qantas in deliberately asking this question and.

16:00

And it. Got a balance

16:02

also ways and say the websites

16:04

oldest. Person. That

16:06

is created that enables you to going to.

16:09

An ideal the plane state which recall

16:11

the Goldilocks state. And in

16:13

helps you to function. As okay about

16:15

the Goldilocks. Concede before when it comes

16:18

to worry since he's operating officer. Has

16:21

nothing to do more yoga and do many

16:23

things with added to it's initially knuckling assisted

16:25

with. Yeah As a com your body shape

16:27

and physical mental health improves. Sites.

16:29

And comes Austin as christians don't really.

16:32

Have. Time.

16:36

If you're going to good information to help

16:38

him in others intrusive thoughts on a podcast

16:41

about it's a curiosity, the things he sort

16:43

of and he sees him as your best

16:45

friend and the helps. Manage.

16:47

Them. A listen to the passcode

16:49

costs on hockey team consists of sorts

16:52

As a new best friends. That

16:54

you best friend and your friends was left to them.

16:56

It's really helping with you. Can you

16:59

buy lots of the networks to improve?

17:01

Siblings? Curious! Sir. And the

17:03

one exception of exercising or so I can

17:06

you a better to connect with increase resilience

17:08

as well which makes his pants because we

17:10

become access the read it means in the

17:12

wind. This is the old. A

17:15

bronze fake breaks and tax and

17:17

schools us a citizen answers. In

17:21

general majesty sort of threat to support

17:23

curiosity, Gaming? Your loss? And

17:25

it's problem solving to your city

17:28

encourages creative problem solving Seem. Things

17:30

from different angles: the skinny to

17:32

innovation. And the development of new

17:34

strategies, new life of business. He.

17:37

Reconceptualize assistance in different ways from

17:39

listen to speak to father's come

17:41

to this. Is souls and

17:43

Sadie's in the steaks to come. Information to

17:45

learn from this to yes he does. Curiosity

17:49

takes a problem. On

17:51

the problem to an object of to souls and

17:53

say you're from his failure. To

17:55

information to listen. And mistakes

17:58

information to mention. I'm

18:01

said it was a happy to get emotional maturity.

18:03

And. Self regulation population in need to

18:05

turn him in. Our last. Secretions.

18:08

Were able. To gain a sense of own abilities

18:10

and then. Did you

18:12

hear that says creases the cutlass Again a

18:15

sense of our own abilities and learn how

18:17

we can adapt and change to improve our

18:19

abilities the same time. And. Then

18:21

adaptability. Curiosity helps to be

18:23

adaptable. And a rapidly changing

18:25

roping truth is essential to death. Penalty:

18:28

Stay open to new ideas to

18:30

just keep you open minded. And

18:33

making it easier to death New

18:35

technologies, teams, environment changes, belief systems,

18:37

Curiosity. Grows percent of possibilities and

18:39

said abilities mindset has to is that

18:41

we wanted to a city that possibilities

18:43

are the heard that you can achieve

18:46

probabilities are all the things can happen

18:48

on the way to get This is

18:50

actually the thrones as doesn't work for

18:52

deserted that as you get to wanted

18:54

to possibility. And a

18:56

curiosity analysis possibility. Probability.

18:59

Mindsets allowing you to system to

19:01

develop. Allowing. You to sit picky

19:03

and a state of you can change You

19:05

need to be changed. Our concern. Paralyzing in

19:08

action. And this relates to

19:10

constrain our minds employees to your skin

19:12

please relationships says or a prostitute relationship

19:14

to find out more about the pussy

19:16

and and were packed animal curious debates

19:18

and to see. Some. The connections

19:20

communication Is she getting back and forth? Did

19:23

you ask a question? They're going to onset

19:25

of create so tired today since it's the

19:27

back and forth. So it's a whole

19:29

point is sinking. Learning education, technology,

19:31

medicine, philosophy should be to build a

19:34

base, a world and that connectedness and

19:36

soon as as as as it's cool

19:38

fundamental purpose for for. Curiosities generating.

19:41

It's creating a kitten asked to

19:44

to be. Paid a Siemens more

19:46

committed and building a building a

19:48

world that's more can access. And.

19:51

More Human and how the census. Said.

19:54

No. Curiosity did not kill the

19:56

cat. Curiosity only gives us a deeper

19:58

and root cellar. The understanding about

20:01

ourselves to mental and emotional

20:03

wellbeing suddenly skaters christians is

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nice and stupid Christian he

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